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Hutchinson, G. E.
The Clear Mirror. A pattern of life in Goa and in Indian Tibet.
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1936. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). xi, 171 pp.; 13 b/w photographic plates, one map. Publisher's green cloth with green title on the front board and spine; top edge green. In original printed dust jacket and transparent sleeve.
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[Bertholet, D.]
Radiations. [Results of early experiment with radiated soil and vegetables]
Paris, unpublished, 1925. Two handwritten letters, dated "8 nov. 1925" and "24 12 1925", one letter typed (carbon copy) with two additional leaves, dated "le 22 novembre 1925", and a six pp. letter (carbon copy - versos blank), dated "II décembre 1925"". two cardboard sheets, with six and five photos respectively, showing "radiated" and "control" fields, or plants, mounted.
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[Pfanner, P.]
Stereo slides. Afrique - Africa - early 1960's. [AND] Malaysia - India - Indonesia - Hong Kong - Cambodia - Australia, etc. (1973-1975).
Switzerland, unpublished, (before) 1966-1975. A large collection of colour stereo slides, in uniform trays, and boxes, preserved in four leather suitcases. With the original stereo camera; and a contemporary stereoscope with working light.
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Forbes, F. B. and W. B. Hemsley
Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, the Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy.
London, The Linnean Society, Longmans, Green and Co., Williams and Norgate, 1886-1905. Twenty issues in 20, forming three parts. 8vo (22.2 x 14.4 cm). 1812 pp. ([ii], 521; 592; 686, xi); 24 lithographed plates [14; 10; 0], the first being a large, folded, duotone map. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Mayer, A. G.
The Medusae of the World. The Hydromedusae. The Scyphomedusae. [Complete in three volumes].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1910. Three volumes in three Large 4to (29.6 x 23.4 cm). 769 pp. [1-230, xv; 231-498, xv; iv, 499-735]; 77 chromolithographed plates [numbered 1-76, 64A], except Plates 70-72, which are black-and-white photographic plates; 428 text illustrations; one folding table. Uniform publisher's embossed cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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